Jobseekers flock to San Andres Sports Complex in Manila, as the City of Manila held a job fair and Manila Public Employment Service Office (PESO) held a job fair on Labor Day, May 1, 2023. (MB FILE PHOTO) From the rice paddies of Nueva Ecija to the bustling avenues of Metro Manila, Filipino...
MARTES CALASAN (right) is a dedicated teacher who has mastered his role as a school paper adviser in Kibungan, Benguet. Calasan and his students have traveled around the country to join national writing competitions. Sheltered in the thick layers of Cordillera mountains, where touching the...
TOTO MALVAR beside photo of Gen. Melchor Malvar. It’s become fashionable to say one has planted a tree. A few can boast to have nurtured a forest. Recently, I met a man who can rightly say he planted a mountain of trees –and gave new life to forests. In 1999, this man's initiative was...
FILE PHOTO shows a man walks on a railway track littered with plastic and other waste materials on Earth Day in Mumbai, India, April 22, 2024. (AP) The world creates 57 million tons of plastic pollution every year and spreads it from the deepest oceans to the highest mountaintop to the...
BLEAK, DISMAL – The world-famous and majestic Manila Bay sunset is spoiled by a desolate patch of reclaimed land in Pasay City. (Photo courtesy of Lawrence T. Dy) It’s been a year since President Marcos had ordered the suspension pending review of the 22 reclamation projects in Manila...
LATE SENATOR BENIGNO 'NINOY; AQUINO JR. An icon of change. This is how most Filipinos of today remember the late Senator Benigno “Ninoy” Aquino Jr. for his death sparked the nation’s desire to reclaim its once-lost democracy. Forty-one years after his assassination on the tarmac of the...
THIS JULY 17, 2024 image released by Gull Meadow Farms shows a corn maze honoring the 75th anniversary of the Peanuts comic strip in Richland, Mich. (AP) NEW YORK (AP) — Visitors to corn mazes across the country are finding a familiar and joyous figure in the winding labyrinth of tall...
Drag queens prepare to perform on the Debilly Bridge in Paris, during the opening ceremony of the 2024 Summer Olympics, July 26, 2024. (AP) PARIS (AP) — In an unprecedented display of inclusivity, drag queens took center stage at the Paris Olympics opening ceremony, showcasing the vibrant...
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. delivers his third State of the Nation Address (SONA) at the Batasang Pambansa in Quezon City on July 22, 2024. (Noel Pabalate) The news was received with a standing ovation and lengthy applause from the lawmakers and guests who reacted to President...
Because Apolinario Mabini’s disability largely defined him, at least in our history books and on those ubiquitous hero postcards of our youth—so iconic was the portrait of a frail man on a chair, struck and weakened by polio—many Filipinos could not be blamed for thinking that the Batangueño...
President Ferdinand R. Marcos Jr. delivers his second State-of-the-Nation Address (SONA) at the plenary hall of the House of Representatives on July 24, 2023. (File photo/Noel B. Pabalate) In politics, timing is everything. For some members of the House of Representatives and Senate, the...
This photo provided by NASA shows the Starliner spacecraft docked to the Harmony module of the International Space Station, orbiting 262 miles above Egypt's Mediterranean coast, on June 13, 2024. (NASA via AP) NEW YORK (AP) — When two veteran NASA astronauts blasted off on a test...
